hurleur
^((h aspiré))\yʁ.lœʁ\
The verdict
“hurleur” is uncommon French (frequency #96,000 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,000
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui hurle, qui a l’habitude de pousser des cris.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hurleur · hurleur · French
hurleur · rank #96,000 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,000
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hurles
Nearest frequency peer: hurles (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « hurleur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- humiliées
humiliées
4,005 corpus weight
- hurles
hurles
4,002 corpus weight
- hurleur
hurleur
4,001 corpus weight
- Héraklion
Héraklion
4,000 corpus weight
- Hérouxville
Hérouxville
3,999 corpus weight
- hésiterons
hésiterons
3,998 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hurleur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hurleur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\yʁ.lœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #96,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hurleur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hurleur is uncommon French at frequency #96,000 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\yʁ.lœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui hurle, qui a l’habitude de pousser des cris.".
hurleur has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is hurleur, spelled H-U-R-L-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui hurle, qui a l’habitude de pousser des cris.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hurleur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Derviches hurleurs, sorte de religieux musulmans qui se distinguent par la violence de leurs gestes et de leurs cris.
La surveillance détaillée est si difficile dans le pêle-mêle hurleur et forcené de deux cents enfants !
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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